The Octopus at the Vatican
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Italy 1978, years of lead. Alessa, the young journalist, investigates frequent crimes at her own risk. The Vatican is laundering money for the mafia. Against all odds, Albino becomes pope. He will clean up the mess. But Cosa nostra wants him dead and launches a contract against him. The race for survival begins. The mythological Chimera spits fire. She has three heads of a snake of a goat and of a lion.
Although inspired by real characters and historical facts, this story is fiction. Scenes including historic people are pure falsehood and do not represent reality.
TW: crimes, kidnapping
Translation by Geraldine & Francesca Delescluse of the french novel "La Pieuvre au Vatican", also on Wattpad ; cover by Jérémie Mercier.
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